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alexwild > Trachymyrmex desertorum workers in the fungus garden. Tucson, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Cyphomyrmex wheeleri is the most temperate of the Cyphomyrmex species, occurring as far north as San Francisco, California. Here worker ants tend to their fungus garden. Austin, Texas, USA
alexwild > Trachymyrmex septentrionalis in the fungus garden. Laboratory colony at the University of Texas
alexwild > Trachymyrmex desertorum workers in the fungus garden. Tucson, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Trachymyrmex arizonensis foundress queen in her incipient fungus garden. Notice the fine white hyphae of the mutualistic fungus as it grows over the substrate of vegetative debris she has provided for it. Tucson, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Sericomyrmex amabilis. An ant worker tends to brood in the fungus garden. Note how the eggs and larvae are embedded within the fluffy white hyphae of the fungus. Parque Soberania, Panama; Laboratory colony at the University of Texas
alexwild > Cyphomyrmex wheeleri is the most temperate of the Cyphomyrmex species, occurring as far north as San Francisco, California. Here worker ants tend to their fungus garden. Austin, Texas, USA
alexwild > Cyphomyrmex costatus in their edible fungal galleries. Panama
alexwild > Atta cephalotes in the fungus garden. Here, the fungus is visible as a white mold growing across the cut leaves that the ants have fed to it. Captive colony at the California Academy of Sciences
Trachymyrmex desertorum workers in the fungus garden.

Tucson, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Trachymyrmex desertorum workers in the fungus garden. Tucson, Arizona, USA
Trachymyrmex desertorum workers in the fungus garden.

Tucson, Arizona, USA
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